Books and writing

American Book Congress “Electric Journal”
All Consuming
Blog of a Bookslut
Bookmunch: online book reviews
Central Booking
OnFocus.com: Weblog Book Watch
MOBYlives
Tattered Covers
wannawrite.com
Book-A-Minute and Book-A-Minute SF
The Forum: Most Coveted Covers

Libraries and librarians

New York Public Library catalogues, including CATNYP and LEO
Trinity College Dublin main catalogue
British Library public catalogue
Library of Congress main catalog
ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) library gateway page
Landsbókasafns Íslands (National and University Library of Iceland)
Bibliotheque Francaise gateway page
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Deutsches Bibliothek gateway page
Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut Berlin
LIBRIS: National Library of Sweden
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (Royal Library of Belgium)
Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway)Catalogablog
Caveat Lector
Ex Libris
Handheld Librarian
Librarian.net
Library Geek
LibraryPlanet
LibraryStuff
Library Techlog
Library Underground
LIS Feeds
NewBreed Librarian
Peter Scott
Research Buzz
The Rogue Librarian
Suffolk County Libraries (SuffolkWeb)
The Shifted Librarian
Virtual Acquisitions Shelf& News Desk

TV and film

Movie-A-Minute
FilmJerk.com
MilkPlus: a discussion of film
Jump The Shark
TVParty
Proud Obsession: A West Wing Clique
Diary of a Tuber
TV Tickets

Comics and animation

1966 Saturday Mornings
Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research
The Big Cartoon Database
DaveMackey.com
DC Cartoon Archives (animated DC characters)

Science

Astrobiology Magazine: Your Daily eZine on Life in the Universe
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Bottomquark
Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy
Heavens-Above
Science Toys
The Sharpest View of the Sun
Snowdeal: bioinformatics
Neuroprosthesis News

SF and fantasy

The Alien Online
Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
Irish SF News
Locus
SF in Ireland (courtesy of LostCarPark)

News

Breakingnews.ie
Irish Times
Headlines from the New York Times
CNN
BBC “World Edition”
Christian Science Monitor
Financial Times
International Herald Tribune
Boston Globe
LA Times
Washington Post
Slate “Today’s Papers”
SwissInfo
Daily Variety
Hollywood Reporter

Weather

…for Hudson Canyon and environs, including Ambrose Light

The Old Stomping Grounds
Met Eireann
BBC Weather Centre (UK and Ireland precipitation radar)
UK Met Office weather radar
NOAA UK and Ireland marine weather
METEOSAT images, University of Ulm
European satellite image courtesy of wetter.net
SF/DRS (Switzerland) radar imaging
SF/DRS European forecast
SF/DRS Switzerland forecast
Wetter im Leukerbad
Meteo.ch
Wetter.de
Meteo-France gateway page
Meteo-France European forecast
The Weather Channel
Weather Underground
Spaceweather.com
Sun conditions, sunspot data, solar wind info and Solar System weather via SOHO/NASA
NOAA Space Environment Center
NOAA Space Weather index page
“Space Weather Today” from NOAA

Wireless

Dublin WiFiHotspots (thanks, Karlin!)
The Bluetooth Weblog
Hotspot
e3: Blogging the Wireless Freenet
HubHop (Netherlands)
Reiter’s Wireless Data Weblog
Richmond Free Wireless
Swiss Wireless Networks
Swisscom EuroSpot location finder
Techdirt Wireless News
The Wireless Commons
WiFinder
Wi-Fi News
Wireless hotspots, other bookmarks
Wireless hotspots at ZRH

Games

The Chess Variant Pages
PopCap Games

Law (copyright and otherwise)

Ernie the Attorney
Tech Law Advisor
Gigalaw.com
KEYTLaw

Politics

The Temptations of Empire: just what it says on the can
The War In Context.com

History

Samuel Pepys’ Diary

Humor(esque)

Dave Barry’s Blog
The James Lileks websites
The Presurfer
An tInneal Mallachtaí: the Irish Curse Engine
Despair Inc.
How Jedi are you?
Shaolin Soccer
Things People Said
VillainSupply.com

The business of having fun

DeepFun’s Blog
Ludology.org

Goodies and rampaging consumerism

Dynamism.com
Gizmodo: the Gadgets Weblog
I Want One Of Those.com
J@pan.inc: GadgetWatch

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